Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies: On the Interdependence of National Identity and the Construction of Masculinity, Stefan Horlacher; Chapter 2 The Early Cold Warrior on Screen: An All-Purpose Signifier?, Kathleen Starck; Chapter 3 The Flexible Mr. Ripley: Noir Historicism and Post-War Transnational Masculinity in Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Christopher Breu; Chapter 4 "And I Mean Is It Any Wonder All the Men End up Emasculated?" Post-War Masculinities in Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road and John Braine's Room at the Top, Claudia Falk; Chapter 5 The Colors of Masculinity: Gender and the Camera from Sixties Street Photographers to Paul Graham and Martin Parr, Christoph Ribbat; Chapter 6 Accounting for a Crisis-A Transatlantic Analysis of Male First-Person Narratives: Martin Amis's Money versus Evan S. Connell's The Diary of a Rapist, Erik Pietschmann; Chapter 7 Anxious Men: Male Friendships and Domesticity in James Dickey's Deliverance, Lisa Felstead; Chapter 8 'Cubism' as Intersectionalism: John Berger's Figures of Masculinity, Dirk Wiemann; Chapter 9 "It's One Hell of a Mess in Here": Masculinity, the Myth of the Frontier, and the Renunciation of the Mother in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, David Mamet's American Buffalo, and Sam Shepard's True West, Christa Grewe-Volpp; Chapter 10 Constructions of Masculinity in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman, and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Angelika Koehler; Chapter 11 Gendered and Racialized: Reclaiming Chinese American Masculinities since the 1970s, Mirjam M. Frotscher;